Explicit affective strategy training significantly raised Iranian EFL learners' level of anxiety control relative to the control group by the end of the study¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2016 · checked against its sources 2026-11-02 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The experimental group's level of anxiety control was statistically different and higher than the control group's at the end of the study (independent samples t=5.30, p=.00). → Mostafavi and Vahdany 2016

Evidence¶

Mostafavi and Vahdany 2016¶

Fatemeh Mostafavi, Fereidoon Vahdany. (2016). The Effect of Explicit Affective Strategy Training on Iranian EFL learners' Oral Language Proficiency and Anxiety Reduction. Advances in Language and Literary Studies 7(4). https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.4p.197

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Independent-samples t-test on second FLCAS administration: experimental mean 3.73 (SD .72) vs control mean 2.55 (SD .97), n=30 each; t=5.30, df=58, p=.00, mean difference 1.17. No effect size was printed.

"The level of anxiety control for the experimental group is statistically different and higher than that of the control group. Thus, the second null hypothesis was rejected"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Academic Anxiety — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Explicit affective strategy training significantly improved Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners' oral language proficiency compared with a placebo control group — related
• The experimental group's anxiety control changed significantly from pre- to post-treatment while the control group's did not — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• The two groups were homogeneous in anxiety control at the start of the study, differing only at the end — related